Reading Sage: Common Core English Language Arts Games and Lessons

English Language Arts and Math Games Common Core Standards. Use the game cards and game ideas bellow to help your students transition to the new Common Core Standards. The activities are a quick an fun way to expose and teach the Tier 2 and 3 academic vocabulary.

CCSS ELA Vocabulary Games

Alien Vocabulary Game (Tier 3 Testing Words) (or Chutes and Ladders) Use this free tier 3 academic vocabulary game to build test readiness. The game is designed to be a fun way to build academic vocabulary using a game students already know. A number of "CAMO Aliens" (ladders) and "Blues Aliens" (or "chutes") are pictured on the board, each connecting two specific board squares. The object of the game is to navigate one's game piece from the start (bottom square) to the finish (top square), helped or hindered by CAMO Aliens and Blues Aliens, respectively. Any time you land on an alien you have to draw a new card! If you land on the CAMO Aliens and answer the vocabulary question correctly you beam to the next highest CAMO Alien plus the move allowance on the card. If you land on the Blue Alien and get the question wrong you beam down to the next lowest Blues Alien. If you are on a Blue Alien and answer correctly you stay put until your next turn.

Complete Vocabulary Game Card Set

NO EXCUSES TESTING VOCABULARY

Vocabulary Game RULEs

Alien Vocabulary Game Board

Vocabulary Game Cards Reading